Well, with keeping it as 'ref:penndot', it would allow some of the outside 
cases where the internal route numbers on the primary system have a different 
number on the little white signs.  As an example, take a look at PA-380 [1].  
It's internal number is SR-400 since 'SR-380' is applied to I-380.  This is one 
of a few cases like this.  Another example like this is PA-99 [2] which is 
officially SR-699 because I-99 has the 'SR-99' number (but wasn't always the 
case as both shared it for awhile till 2008).  Even PA-283 is 'SR-300' because 
I-283 is 'SR-283' [3].  I think there are a few other cases like this, but I 
can't recall them right now, but some of them might be split state routes where 
one half is the base number, and the other half another number if there is no 
chance of them being joined.

-James

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Route_380
[2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Route_99
[3] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Route_283 

> To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org
> From: m...@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us
> Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 13:06:14 -0800
> Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Pennsylvania's quadrant routes
> 
> On 2015-01-16 07:52, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > I'm very much in favor of PA instead of SR for disambiguation purposes.
> 
> With James' proposal to change `ref` to `ref:penndot` (or something even 
> more explicit like `ref:penndot:quadrant`), there's no need for 
> disambiguation. A prefix of "PA" isn't going to solve the problem of 
> mappers conflating PennDOT's two networks either.
> 
> -- 
> m...@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us
> 
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